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Aligning and distributing - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign 2020 Essential Training
Aligning and distributing
- [Instructor] One of the signs of professional design is the precision and consistency of how you align your objects on the page. So, let's take a look at some great tricks for ensuring your objects line up. First, let's open the Pages panel and I'll double-click on page five to jump to it. We have three images here that I want to align, and as we drag one of them, you'll see these little lines flash on and off the screen. Those are Smart Guides, and they make life so much easier. For example, let's drag this until we see a magenta line appear. That means it's centered on the page. If I drag up a little bit, you'll see some green lines appear, too. Those green lines along the top, middle, and bottom of this object and the one to the left means those two objects are aligned. Now, check it out. Let's drag this other object until it aligns with the others, but now, if you squint, you can also see two little double-headed…
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Resizing and rotating objects5m 7s
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Duplicating objects and making grids3m 22s
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Moving objects above or below each other2m 19s
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Creating and controlling layers4m 56s
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Aligning and distributing4m 26s
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Understanding text wrap4m 5s
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Using anchored objects4m 54s
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